Social Media Workshop session 2

Social Media Circle members

This session focused more on how to become an entrepreneur using the social media tools like facebook, twitter and blogger. We discussed the main problems in Namibia and how they can be solved. Some of these problems includes: poverty, flood, unemployment.

In this workshop a digital agency was created where by we will be providing services such as training and providing social media strategies to businesses and organizations in our country and also globally. The other topics covered were based on creating values to clients if you want to be the best on what you do.

The team was divided in to three groups where by they have to do campaigns and test them if they are capable of running online campaigns and get people engaged in what they are doing.

The team spoke to people in Paris that are also interested in running an RLab in their country. This brought to attention that people all over the world want to do the same thing as we NBIC.

The third session will follow in May where by people will be trained on how to train others. These types of workshops are just one way reducing unemployment in our country.

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We learned that as an entrepreneaurs we need to know who is our competitors and how they are operating. We describled what will make our Digital Agencies differ from the existing one.We also learned that as an entrepreneur you have to take risk,creative and innovative by step into problems define it and solution to it.

We all have different strenght and we learned that in our group we have problem solvers, non-givaper, those strike to success nometter how big is the challenge, futhermore, we learned why our Target Audience need the toolkit and what to use them for. The business model Canvas is very inportant as an entrepreneur to see who are your partner network, your key activities, your key resources, what you are offering to your clients, your customer relationships and segment, Distribution channels and cost structure and revenue streams.

We are so determined and very motivated because we almost have the resources that we need in order to run and start progressing with our idea of taking our business plan into practical.

SOCIAL MEDIA TRAINING FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS

Our session two of the training,focused on entrepreneurship. We worked on being the best digital agency in Namibia,in partnership with Rlabs and NBIC.

We identified the problems faced by the country at the moment and each group came up with a solution to the problem. Namibia in the year 2020 was also one of the main activities. In connection with our agency,we identified our strengths,resources,contributions,partners,anti-partners and our target audience.

Our main toolkit's are the SME's, NGO's and leisure businesses.The channels of distribution,how we will get our products to our consumers.

During the training,we all did group exercises, then we presented them.

We entered the business idea competition and we are looking forward to win,first position. For this two weeks,we did alot about entrepreneur, skills and how to start your own business,from what other people see as a problem .Another important thing was doing research about other digital agencies,so that we know who our competitors are.

"Its never impossible, until its done"

Emilia

Martha

Monica

Leonard

Andreas

Steven

Social Media cirle digital agency

entrepreneur at NBIC

Today we are meeting our first client and am soon happy and can't weit.

Rural Innovation Workshop

Rural innovation generally refers to the process of improving the quality of life and economic well being of the entrepreneurs in rural areas.

The workshop was attended by people working on rural development in Namibia. They want to educate the rural entrepreneurs on how they commercialise their products and how they can scale their products in the market. They want to develop a model for rural innovation so that entrepreneurs can benefit from it and learn what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur.

They used a good example of India National Rural Development (Honey Bee Network). The Indians work miles every day to share ideas with their rural entrepreneurs, and ask the villagers what they need in their villages. Through these processes, they host village meetings, looking at survey done by students, local network and media and the use cell phones and laptop to document these surveys. People who carry out these surveys are volunteers we hope to have similar people in Namibia for the benefit of economic growth of our country.

The participants had so many questions regarding the challenges in rural areas most of them are concerned if research was done regarding this issues. Some have pointed out that lack of infrastructure and skilled people in Namibia can be a huge threat to the development of rural entrepreneurs.

The participants posted their ideas on the notice board and all these questions they had been answered by discussing all the notes posted on the notice board.

The workshop closed by discussing how they can engage Namibia rural population in innovation and entrepreneurship. We hope for more of these workshops to continue for the upliftment of rural development in Namibia.

Sourcing of ideas for change - problem solving

@Polytechnic hotel school
Topic: Sourcing of ideas
for change - problem solving
This is an amazing of
all workshops for NBIC innovation week. The speaker of the event was Mr. Nico
steyn. The workshop focused on how to discover a problem, put it in work, split
it and find different solution for it. People
from different companies in Namibia had participated and had a lot of fun by
playing idea game where first you
find problem perception and definition of problem major root and minor roots.
There were card game
played were by each group combined their ideas, and think outside the box and
come up with critical solutions. This was real great and proved that thinking
has never been this much fun! It’s very important that creativity ideas are
shared.
For
more info: http://www.intellilab.tv/
http://www.theideasgame.com/
nico@theideasgame.com

Public Talk: Sourcing of Ideas & Problem Solving

NBIC hosted a Public Talk on 13 March evening on how to source ideas to solve problems. Mr Nico Steyn from Cape Town shared more insight on the subject. He gave us a list of top thinkers and problem solvers such us Leonardo daVinci, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Wall Disney, and Kauro Ishikawa. DaVinci, for example, lived before enternet was introduced but he managed to carry out scientific researches without any technological advantage.

One of the interesting points he raised was that 90% of our thinking is based on perception and it makes us not to understand the real causes of the problem. To overcome this, we should regard problems as a tree with roots, which can therefore be only removed by getting rid of the roots.